"General, why did you take the initiative to ask for your life?"

"We're here to eat, drink, and kick. When the Chu people can't bear it, they can still win a battle and make meritorious contributions, how beautiful is it? Why don't you go to Dongjun to confront some Qi people?"

In the barracks, when he heard Zhao Tuo announce that their 20,000 people were about to leave the chasm camp and go north to the border of Qinqi, the black buttocks couldn't bear it at first and complained in a low voice.

Not to mention him, several other military candidates also had bitter faces.

Normal people know that now that Qin and Chu are facing each other, the Qin State has a great advantage.

The Qin army not only has more troops than the Chu people, but also has the general Wang Jian to lead, and the chances of winning this attack on Chu are very great, and the credit is certain.

At this kind of time when a war may start at any time and get credit, Zhao Tuo suddenly led his troops north, isn't this something that only fools do?

Seeing that his subordinates' eyes were full of resentment, Zhao Tuo couldn't help but roll his eyes.

He didn't want to, but when he saw Wang Jian at that time, he knew that the other party had already decided on the candidate, and it was better to stand up and take it by himself than to be named.

However, since he had already received the general's order, Zhao Tuo did not want to waste too much time on being entangled and depressed.

He gave orders to his generals: "The military order is like a mountain, don't say anything, wait for the army to be reorganized quickly, and tomorrow let the soldiers rest for another day, feast and eat, and nourish their spirits." Depart immediately the next morning without delay."

"Yui."

Including the black buttocks, when the generals heard the word military order, they immediately looked solemn and gave up the order.

Although Zhao Tuo is usually more kind to their cronies, he began to get to the point, which was also full of majesty.

There are no two orders in the army, and military orders are issued, and there will never be any voice of doubt or opposition.

Seeing that Shima, Zhao Guang and others were ordered to go down and begin to prepare for departure.

Zhao Tuo sat on the couch, his brows furrowed slightly, and began to think about the meaning of Wang Jian asking him to go to the Qinqi border this time.

As Qin Wangzheng's most trusted young general, and also his old subordinate brought out by Wang Qian, Wang Jian had no reason to arrange Zhao Tuo to this thankless task.

This is rectifying him, deliberately not giving Zhao Tuo credit.

Could it be that he Zhao Tuo offended Wang Jian in some things?

Unexpectedly, Wang Jian threw Zhao Tuo to the Qinqi border to idle at such a critical moment.

But Zhao Tuo felt that this was not very possible, not to mention that he had not offended Wang Qian. Even if he was really accidentally offended, it was impossible for an old Jianghu like Wang Jian to be stupid enough to throw the young general who Qin Wangzheng was optimistic about into that position.

Thinking about it like this, Zhao Tuo felt that Wang Jian deliberately hinted that he was asking for his life for another purpose.

Zhao Tuo squinted, his fingertips gently rubbing the eucalyptus in front of him.

The Qi State stationed 100,000 troops on the Qin-Qi border, and although it did not do it immediately, it threatened the eastern county of the Qin State.

East County.

Thinking about it, Zhao Tuo's heart moved, and he shouted to Lu Juan, who was accompanying him at the door, "Ah Juan, spread the map for me."

"Yui."

As Lu Juan took the map and spread it on the eucalyptus, the geographical situation there immediately appeared clearly in front of Zhao Tuo's eyes.

Dongjun was originally part of Wei.

In the fifth year of the reign of King Qin, Meng Wei led the army to attack Wei, and laid down 20 cities such as Suozao, Yan, Xu, Changping, Yongqiu, and Shanyang, and set up Dongjun, which has been 17 years ago.

….

To the east of Dongjun is the Qi State, so the Qi people stationed troops on the border can pose a threat to the Qin State.

and south of East County.

After the Qin State destroyed Wei last year, it divided the newly seized Wanqu, Dingtao and other places into the jurisdiction of Dongjun.

Zhao Tuo's fingers rubbed over the map, gradually pointing to the edge of the southern part of Dongjun.

Therefore, south of today's East County, there is a single father.

After the single father, it is the abundance of the Chu State.

A ray of essence flashed in Zhao Tuo's eyes, and he faintly guessed what Wang Jian meant.

If General Wang really has such a plan, then he, the Qin general who once killed abundantly from the Chu State, is indeed there

Perfect for this task.

It's just that the premise is to get rid of the 100,000 army of Qi State!

"General, do you think I can fight 100,000 with 20,000?"

……

"Twenty thousand?"

"No, there are more than 20,000 people under your command, General Zhao!"

On the evening of the next day, before leaving, Wang Jian called Zhao Tuo to his tent, and the old general, whose beard had turned gray, laughed at Zhao Tuo.

"The old man has sent a fast horse to Xianyang to seek the command of the Dongjun forces for you."

"This time, the soldiers of the Qi State are on the border, the situation is special, and the king will definitely agree to this matter, so when you Zhao Tuo arrived in Dongjun with his subordinates, the envoy from Xianyang must also have arrived in Dongjun with the king's edict."

In the flickering candle flame, the smile on Wang Qian's face became more and more vigorous.

"In this way, you Zhao Tuo can justifiably mobilize all the troops of the entire East County, aside from the soldiers guarding the city, you can at least recruit another 20,000 soldiers, so how can you only have 20,000?"

"You Zhao Tuo, you can have at least 40,000 soldiers!"

Zhao Tuo was shocked and couldn't help but take a deep breath.

I see!

Qin's invasion of Chu is a major event of the country, and it will naturally make predictions about various sudden situations that will occur in the whole war.

The state of Qi suddenly intervened, or the state of Chu sent troops from Fengpei to raid the eastern border of the Qin state......

These possibilities have been made as early as in the temple calculations of the Qin State.

Therefore, this time, the Qin State recruited an army of 600,000 to attack Chu, and even the land of Bashu and Yanzhao recruited soldiers to come, but only the newly conquered Dangjun and the adjacent Dongjun of Qi were not moved.

The troops of Dangjun defended the state of Chu, and the eastern county defended the state of Qi.

Therefore, in this war of Chu, the Qin army gathered, but there was no one in Dongjun.

In this case, it is not very difficult for a large county to recruit 20,000 soldiers in wartime.

Zhao Tuo swallowed his saliva, he didn't expect that the general would have this trick.

Recruited 20,000 soldiers from Dongjun, and his Zhao Tuo reached 40,000 warriors.

As for logistics, in addition to the nearly thirty cities in Dongjun to recruit local people for supplies, they can also rely on food from Xingyang.

The Qin army's grain station, Xingyang Aocang is not only very close to Dongjun on the land route, but also can rely on the river water in the north to transport, and in the south, it can rely on the chasm to transport the grain to the vicinity of Dingtao, and its distance is even closer than that of Wang Qian's camp.

There are troops.

Food logistics has.

The gap between Zhao Tuo's strength and Qi this time was not as big as he imagined.

You must know how many tens of thousands of troops a country has sent in this era, all of which are counted as auxiliary soldiers.

….

Therefore, the Qi State is known as a 100,000-strong army, and there are at least 40,000 or 50,000 logistics auxiliaries in the army.

According to this calculation, the Qi army has a maximum of 60,000 soldiers, and it is even likely to be about 50,000.

Zhao Tuo had 40,000 soldiers and 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers against Qi.

In addition to the 20,000 Dongjun miscellaneous soldiers who were temporarily conscripted, Zhao Tuo also had 20,000 Guanzhong elites who had been trained for several months.

The Qi army is a division that has not been in battle for more than 40 years.

This comparison of combat power.

Zhao Tuo's hands clenched into fists excitedly.

"Hehe, so you know why the old man is suggesting that you ask for your life."

Wang Jian smiled and said, "If you can let the king agree to temporarily take charge of the troops of the first county in the eastern county, who else will the old man give up on you!" So Zhao Tuo, this mission to Dongjun belongs to you!"

The mobilization of Qin's army must have a complete set of procedures, such as tiger talismans, talismans, and edicts...... In the absence of an edict, even Wang Jian had no right to mobilize the troops of Dongjun, so he had to send an envoy to Xianyang to ask for instructions.

Looking at the suddenly realized appearance of the young man in front of him, the corners of Wang Qian's mouth hooked up a surging smile.

What he said was actually not right, in the face of the situation that the Qi army was on the verge of the border, even if he sent Feng Wuxuan to lead the troops, Qin Wangzheng would agree to hand over the military power of Dongjun to Feng Wu

Choose.

It's just that Wang Jian thinks that Zhao Tuo is more suitable, and with Zhao Tuo, a young man, who will come out and shine more brightly in this war, and cover up his Wang Qian's light, his old king can retire more safely.

So he wants to praise Zhao Tuo.

"You know what I mean, right?"

Wang Jian stared at Zhao Tuo, he believed that this young man could understand his intentions.

Zhao Tuo nodded.

With 40,000 soldiers in hand, will you be afraid of the 100,000 Qi army?

He said aloud, "General Wang wants me to take the initiative to attack and kill that Qi army!"

"Hahaha...... Zhao Tuo, you are really a worm in the old man's belly, and you can teach your son!"

Wang Jian laughed.

After laughing, his expression returned to solemnity, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes.

"That's right!"

"The dispatch of the Qi army is not only a threat to our Qin State, but also an opportunity for us to destroy Chu!"

"The Qi people stationed troops on the border of Dongjun are an echo of the Chu State's request for help. Relying on the cover of the Qi army, the Chu people will definitely ignore the defenses there, and they will not take your troops against the Qi country in their eyes."

"So you are the old man's strange soldier, as long as you can defeat that Qi army, and then you can take advantage of the power of victory...... In this way, the stalemate between Qin and Chu will inevitably be broken, and then it will be the time for the old man to break the army and destroy Chu!"

"And you, Zhao Tuo, will also make a great contribution!"

Zhao Tuo completely understood.

A famous general is a famous general!

From the threat of the border of Qi State's troops, Wang Jian actually saw the opportunity to break the deadlock between Qin and Chu, and saw the opportunity to break Chu in one fell swoop.

And the key player in it is he Zhao Tuo.

Giving such an extremely important task to Zhao Tuo is not only Wang Qian's trust in Zhao Tuo, a seventeen-year-old boy, but also a kind of love for him.

It's a great achievement, and it's for you!

Zhao Tuo looked at the white-haired old general in front of him, under the candlelight in the tent, and couldn't help but be moved in his heart.

"The Admiral loves me!"

Dongjun who took off